#rsrh “But I voted for the guy!” (NSFW)

That is one of the most important lines from this Jon Lovitz rant – which is a dangerous rant for this administration, for reasons which I will relate below – that is making the rounds:

Said rant, for those without video, consists of Jon Lovitz’s reaction at being told that he – a rich person, who owns a club, and who apparently watches half of his gross income get hoovered up by various government agencies – is not paying his fair share of taxes. Lovitz… disagrees. Profanely. Using words that he probably still fondly thinks that he’s allowed to use, the poor so-and-so. Well, he’ll learn soon enough that only good, obedient liberals are allowed those words – and only when they’re used against conservatives.

Anyway, why this is a dangerous rant:

• It is amazingly, publicly unflattering towards the Obama administration.  Never mind for a moment the central message (Obama is engaged in hypocritical class warfare against people who actually produce things); the secondary message (Obama will shut down dissent, whether officially or via Occupy goons*) is not one that the Obama administration wants to hear from somebody who voted for him.
• It’s self-aware (which is one major reason why it’s funny).  The guy that’s doing the stand-up/rant/free-form howl of outrage alongside of Lovitz points out halfway through that Lovitz sounds a bit like a likeable jerk himself, and Lovitz runs with it.
• It’s pretty straightforward. The message is real simple: Lovitz started from zero, made his pile by his own efforts, so did Obama (hey, this is Lovitz arguing that, not me), now Obama wants to tell Lovitz off about how Lovitz isn’t paying his fair share, so Obama can f*ck off.  Straightforward is dangerous, when you’re the one on the receiving end of it.

In closing, one last pro-tip, for Democrats**?  Tax week is actually a bad week to throw out tax-the-rich rhetoric: that’s because there’s actually a large disconnect between what the Democrats define as rich, and what the rest of us do.  Normally many Democrats (more accurately, Democratic-leaning voters) can ignore that, but it’s especially provocative to hear that kind of rhetoric when you’ve just lost a claw.

As Lovitz demonstrates.

Moe Lane

*Who are pot-smoking degenerates, according to Lovitz.  I take issue with that: I know many pot-smokers and even more degenerates, and while there are bad apples in every barrel most of the ones of my acquaintance are fine, upstanding American citizens who I would readily allow into my house.  In short, they’re not like the Occupiers.

**Note the noun.  It’s kind of irrelevant for Obama staffers to learn this pro-tip; it’s going to be a while before it will have any kind of practical relevance to them…